Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.

The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper G uinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba r egion and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Port uguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to ta ke on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eightee nth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the esta blishment of colonial administration.